One of South Australia's earliest buildings and home to over 300 000 people from 1841 to 1988, Adelaide Gaol is one of Australia's longest operating prisons.

The person responsible for the greening of Adelaide in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Botanic Park has blossomed as a place for informal family gatherings and a venue for public events

The first Anzac memorial was once an obelisk in a grove of wattles

Works by the renowned and unpretentious artist John Dowie enhance many public places

George Ian Ogilvie Duncan, a lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide, drowned on 10 May after being thrown into the River Torrens. Rumours spread that officers from the vice squad engaged in ‘poofter bashing’ had killed Duncan.

Celebrated at its opening in 1882, and again a century later, the rotunda remains a focus point for events in Elder Park.

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

Paradoxically, the only parts of South Australia to experience occasional serious disruption of by flooding are the far distant sparsely populated deserts around Lake Eyre

In 1910 thousands of people lined the Torrens to see the carnival of lavishly decorated boats in the first Henley-on-Torrens Regatta

'Popeye the Sailor' was a popular cartoon at the cinema in the 1930s when Gordon Watts introduced a tourist pleasure craft on the River Torrens

The River Torrens has dominated the development of Adelaide and its metropolis, often in subtle or little recognised ways

The iconic figure of of 'Simpson and his Donkey' looks over War Memorial Drive from the Angas Garden.

The South Australian Tourism Commission, established in 1993, focuses on marketing South Australia as a tourist destination to interstate and overseas markets.